> In most cases, there’s a three-to-five-year window after a ruling party or leader or revolutionary brigade comes to power and asserts the right to arbitrarily detain and punish civilians. At some point toward the end of that window, a struggle typically begins over whether to massively expand the quasi-legal sites of detention into a more permanent system.

@inthehandsPaul Cantrell hachyderm.io/@inthehands/11599

0

If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://hachyderm.io/users/budududuroiu/statuses/115996411264151298 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)